Beginner Wizard Questions

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Originally Posted by Alarti0001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not sure if you mentioned this but the TOP melee DPS in a raid generally has Avatar on them and you won't find that in group encounters. Not to mention Raid level weapons and armor. Melee are much more gear dependent than a wizard. However if you want to throw in top end gear... mine as well add in the free mana item nukes wizards get.

Yeah, all of this is obviously a factor, but the difference is so vast that even with cheap gear the melee would be much better than a similarly-geared wizard. I'd have used a more representative DPS parse of a typical EXPing situation but I couldn't find one (I don't do DPS parses myself). In the post I got the parses from, Splorf mentioned that Sakuragi, a warrior, typically did around 40 DPS in an EXP situation with weapons that were not top-end.